The Supreme Court has blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for more than 40 million Americans. The court’s conservative justices expressed skepticism about Biden’s authority to forgive student loan debt without direct authorization from Congress.
What I truly don’t understand is when presented with actual positions on policy issues, a vast majority of people in the US agree with the Democrats’ platform. They only go insane when you tell them the Democrats support a certain position on that topic.
The most famous example is the ACA. Explain what the bill does, the benefits, the requirements to spend a certain percentage of premium dollars on healthcare, demands to cover certain things like prescriptions and various screenings, people love it. Tell them it’s “Obamacare” and they suddenly hate socialist communists stealing your money to pay for abortions.
It’s so infuriating. It’s like the culture war programming blinds them to seeing that they are voting against their own interests and policies they actually support